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Andrew Coogan
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Sleep Researcher and Professor.
"One of the finest efforts in Lincolnshire".
I love Yamamori, and remember going there when it opened for our Christmas do when I was PhD student, very exotic at the time. www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
Yamamori review: Restaurant that taught Dublin about sushi shows why it has thrived for 30 years
The menus here present an edible record of Dublin’s long education in Japanese food
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November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I had never noticed before the Welsh Chapel Talbot Street in Dublin, apparently used to cater to merchant sailors running between Dublin port and Holyhead.
November 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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We’re proud that a Bantshire student ambassador is on placement at the OBR today.
November 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.
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New job opportunity with the CRF-UCC: Information Systems Manager The CRF-UCC is #hiring an IS Manager to continue to grow Electronic Data Capture supports offered through the Statistics, Data & Anal...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Getting past that grant submission deadline.
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Unless it involves a robot bringing plastic pints glasses of Heineken to their seats, I'm not sure it is going to work...
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
***Poirot Voice*** “I deduce from the contents of ze bin that le Professeur was engaged in ze enterprise of grant writing.”
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Anyone remember the TCD/UCD Innovation Alliance? Good times!
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UCD and TCD Innovation Alliance is about nurturing nation's talent
OPINION: The research and development merger between Trinity and UCD is just the start of a much greater process of evolution…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Yes, yes, HR Transformation, but in which direction?
November 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“France’s top university will focus on free, open participative infrastructures to “reclaim ownership” of its data, its president says.”
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Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking
France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Sigh, having to write this so my colleagues don't get spammed by useless university rankers: "Please do not contact any of my collaborators with this, I believe that university rankings are conceptually and methodologically invalid and the ranking companies offer nothing to higher education"
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Pub phrenology
November 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Premature Santa
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A great example of the sunk cost fallacy in research; at which point do you stop asking non-productive research questions and admit that no further research is warranted as there just is not much effects of importance there?
The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.

Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Me, reading that e-mail from the journal/funder that goes “We regret to inform you…”
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
What is the point of digging up Maynooth for months on end to install bike lanes if those bike lanes are not continuous? What is supposed to happen here?
November 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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My SWBio PhD DTP project with Lukasz Chrobok (@chroboklab.bsky.social) and Kate Elliott (@neuroendo.bsky.social) is now advertised:

Run, sleep, repeat: Regular exercise for good health and longevity.

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November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We've reached the point of the University being a loose collection of students and staff, united by a common concern about parking.
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Call For Maynooth University To Address Student Parking Overflow Impacting Nearby Estates
Fianna Fail Councillor Donna Phelan tabled a motion for Kildare County Council to write to the University, highlighting what she says are persistent parking issues in several residential estates.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Holy
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM